enfranchisement
English edit
Etymology edit
enfranchise + -ment
Noun edit
enfranchisement (countable and uncountable, plural enfranchisements)
- The act of enfranchising
- A release from slavery
- The investiture with any of several municipal privileges
- (land legal, England and Wales, historical) the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold estate
- enfranchisement of copyhold